Delivering means for printing



DEL IVERING MEANS FOR PRINTING MACHINES Filed March 16, 1927 //v VEN7-0;? THOMAS c. MALEX ,4 TTORNE K Patented Oct. 31, 1933 UNITED" STATESDELIVERING MEANS FOR PRINTING ,MACHINES Thomas C. Maley, Dayton, Ohio,assignor to Ohmer Fare Register Company, Daytn,'0hio, a corporation ofNew York 1 Application March 16, 1927. Serial No. 175,862

9 Claims.

This invention relates to an improved delivering means for tickets,receipts and the like after they have been printed and severed. One ofthe objects of the invention is to provide a movable means interposedbetween the severing means and the exit opening so that instruments suchas knives and screwdrivers may not be inserted through the exit openinginto the I path of movement of the severing means.Sometimes'operators-desire to render such a. machine inoperative. Withmy improved structure they cannot render it inoperative by inserting anytool into the knife or severing mechanism or into other movable parts ofthe machine. 5 Another object of the invention is to provide adelivering means which will operate in time relation to the printingmeans, the feeding means and the severing means.

In the drawing: Fig. 1 is a front fragmentary elevational view of themachine, xFig.'2 is a side elevational View showing the main drivingshaft and associated parts in the position in which they would be whenthe main drivingshaft has made one-half a revolution,

Fig. 3 is a cross-sectional view showing the parts in the position inwhich they would be after the machine has been operated, and

Fig; 4 is a side elevational view of the knife operating mechanism.

This invention is an improvement on the ap-' plication of Albert S.Wheelbarger and Grover C. Coil, Serial No. 65,532, filed October 29,1925 and issued May 17, 1932 as Patent No. 1,858,813, to which patentreference is made for a more complete disclosure of the machine as awhole. The subject matter of this invention may, however, beincorporated in any machine designed the like.

Referring more particularly to the drawing, a counter shaft 1 isprovided with a manually operated crank 2 and a gear 3 which meshes withand drives a gear 4, which drives a shaft 5 and a disk 6. The disk 6 isin fact a mutilated gear having gear teeth 7 on a portion of itscircumference which teeth drive a pinion 8 secured to a shaft 9. Thepinion 8 has one short tooth which lies behind the disk 6 so that thetwo adjacent teeth form a locking engagement with the periphery of thedisk 6. The end teeth of the gear teeth 7 are elongated so as to engagethe short tooth of the pinion 8, all of which structure is described indetail in the said application No. 65,532.. The pinion 8 drives a pinionto print and issue tickets, coupons, receipts and 10 secured to a shaft11. The shaft 9 is provided with an impression roller 12 while the shaft11 is provided with an electroplate 13, between which roller andelectroplate the ticket strip 14' passes. The disk 6 is provided with awrist pin 15 which actuates a pitman 16 attached to a lever 17 by meansof a stud 18. w The stud 18 is attached to an oscillating printingcarrier 19 fulcrumed on a shaft 20 and provided with platens 21 and 22and an ink roller 23.

The main drive. shaft 5 is provided with a cam 24 which actuates a bellcrank lever 25 pivoted on a shaft 26, which bell crank lever actuatesa'movable knife blade 2'7 which is caused to travel upwardly against afixed knife blade 28, severing the paper strip after it has beenprinted.

The main shaft 5 is also provided with two cams 29 which engage thefingers 30 of a lever 31 pivoted on a shaft 32. A-spring 33 is securedto the shaft 32 and at its other end abuts against a pin 34 on the lever31, thereby tending to hold the levers 31 in the position shown in Fig.3.. The levers 31 are connected at their upper ends with a deliveringmeans35 which is rec tangular in vertical cross-section, but whose upperand lower walls converge toward each other at the outer end so as tosubstantially conform to the sides of the exit opening 36 in the easing3'7. A spring baffle plate 38 is secured to the lower wall of thedelivering means and ex tends upwardly, resiliently pressing againstthelower surface of the upper wall and thence ex tending slightlydownwardly again. A The latter portion of the movable knife 27' isprovided with a U-shaped hook 48 which re-- ceives a knob 49 of the bellcrank lever 50, pivoted on a pin 51 secured to a plate 52, mounted on ashaft 5 and cross-bar 32. The other end of the bell crank lever 50 isprovided with an offset lug 53 which projects into the path of move-Qment of the cam 54, rigidly secured to the rota"- table shaft 5 and bellcrank lever 55 is pivoted on cross-bar 32. One arm of the bell cranklever 55 is provided with a cam surface 56*which is engaged by the saidcam 54. The other arm of the bell crank 55 is provided with a cam lug 57which engages the lower beveled edge 58 of the lug 53. Under the cam 57is a recess 59 to receive the lug 53, and a second arm'of the bell cranklever 55 terminates in a cam portion 60. The parts are normally in theposition shown in Fig. 4, at which time the crank handle 2 has notcommenced its rotation. As the crankhandle 2 is rotated, the shaft 5 isrotated thereby. The cam 54 is in engagement with thecam surface 56. Asthe cam 54 rotates in a counter-clockwise direction, as viewed in Fig.4, it rotates the bell crank lever 55 in a clockwise direction, so thatcam 5'7 engages the lower bevel of the lug 53, rotating the bell cranklever 53 clockwise, and lowering the movable 27. The movable knife isnow held in its lowered position by the lug 53 engaging the forward'sideof the recess 59. As the cam 5e continues rotation, it engages the camportion so of the bell crank lever 55, rotating the lever 55 in acounter-clockwise direction, and thereby lower-- ing the forward edge ofthe recess 5'3 below the lug 53. The cam 54 now engages the log 53,rotating the bell crank lever in a counterclockwise direction, andraising the knife, thereby severing the paper. When the cam 5% haspassed the lug 53, it engages for a second time the cam surface 56,rotating the bell crank lever in a clockwise direction, so that the cam57 again. engages the bevel surface 58 of the lug 53; thereby slightlyrotating the bell crank lever 50 in a clockwise direction and loweringthe knife into its normal position as shown in Fig. 4.

I the nose of the cam 29 has passed the ii It is necessary to lower theknife last described so that in case the paper 14 has been completelyconsumed, a new roll could be inserted.v If the movable knife closed theopening betweenthe knife blades, it would be impossible to insert a'-new roll of paper.

Before the agent commences, the operation of the machine the parts arein the position. shown in Fig. 3. In operation the agent rotates thecrank 2 clockwise, moving the printing carrier 19-rearwardly so that theink roller 23 brought beneath the type wheels 39 and the platen 22isthen moved beneath the type wheels 39 press ing-the paper strip 14against the same; The gear teeth '7 now engage the teeth of the pinion8, rotating the pinions 3 and If), feeding the ticket strip forward andimpressing thereon the printed matter carried by the electroplate 13,which has'been inked by the ink roller 40. cam 24 thereafter engages thebell crank lever 25- movingthe movable knife plate 27 upwardly, therebysevering the paper. As soon as the operator commences the rotation ofthe crank 2 thereby rotating the main drive shaft 5 the cam 29 has movedthe delivering means 35 from the position shown in Fig. 3 to that shownin 2. The rollers 12 and 13, therefore, feed the ticket strip above thespring baffle 38, and when the knife 27 moves upwardly severing thepaper, theticket is securely held between the upper sur face of thespring baflie 38 and the lower surface of the upper plate of thedelivering means The upward movement of the knife 27 does not displacethe delivering means 35, for a cutaway portion 41- is provided in therear end of the deliveringmeans which cutaway portion is of aconfiguration conforming to the shape of the upper part of the knife.Immediately prior to the completion of the operation of the 1' 3D, andthe spring 33 now moves the do -J-l'lllfi means from the position shownin Fig. 2 to that shown in Fig. 3, so that the forward end of thedelivering means is now exactly adjacent the exit opening 36.

It will-be noted that when the delivering means 35 is in the positionshown in 2 it would beimpossible to insert any instrument throughtheopening 36 and between the knife blades 27 and. 28. It would likewisebe impossible in any other position in which the delivering The means 35might be. I therefore provide an improved delivering means and at thesame time provide means to prevent the insertion of an object such as ascrewdriver for the purpose of damaging or mutilating the machine.

I realize that many changes may be made in the specific form which Ihave shown herein without departing from the spirit of this invention. Idesire, however, to claim the invention broadly in whatever form itmight be embodied which may fairly fall within the terms of the appendedclaims.

I claim;

1. In a machine of the type described, paper feeding and severing means,a holding and delivery means for the severed sections, and means wherebysaid holding and delivery means is first moved towards said feedingmeans to receive one of the severed sections and is then moved away fromsaid feeding means to deliver it, and means whereby the feeding andseveringmeans are held inoperative whilethej holding and delivery meansis being moved away from the feeding'means. j

2. In a machine of the type described, a casing, paper feeding andsevering means within said casing, said casing having a dischargeopening in a different horizontalplane from the severing means, adelivery means for the severed sections of paper also arranged withinsaid casing, and means for moving the delivery means from the receivingrelation with said severing means into discharge relation with saidopening.

3. In a machine of the type described; paper feeding means, severingmeans for the paper, a delivery means for the severed sections, acombination bafiie and holding means carried by said delivery means, andmeans whereby said paper severing and feeding means are operated intimed relation then held stationary and means whereby the deliverymeans'is operated while the severing and feeding means areheldstationary.

a. In amachine of the type described, a casing provided with an exitopening, paper feeding means, a severing means, the cutting edge ofwhich is in a different horizontal plane from the exit opening, adelivery and holding means, and means for moving the delivery and.holding means away from the feeding means upon the actuation of thefeeding and severing means.

5. In a machine of the-type described, a casing provided withan exitopening, a paper feeding means within said casing, a. knife locatedabove and behind said exit opening, a delivery and holding means, andmeans for. moving the delivery andholding means away from the feedingand severing means upon the operation of the said feeding and severingmeans.

6. In a machine of the type described, a casing provided with anexitopening, "a. paper feeding means, a severing means having its cuttingedge in a different horizontal plane from the exit opening, a deliverymeans, and means whereby said delivery means is moved back and forthbetween said severing means and said exit opening.

i. In a machine of the type described, a casing provided with an exitopening, apaper severing means, the cutting edge of. which is adifferent horizontal plane from the exit opening, a delivery means, andmeans whereby said delivery means is moved so as to receive a severedsection of the paper and isv thereafter actuated so as to deliver saidsevered section to the exit opening.

8. In a machine of the type described, a casing provided with an exitopening, a paper severing means, the cutting edge of which is in adifferent horizontal plane from the exit opening, a receiving andholding means, and means whereby said receiving and holding means ismoved towards said cutting means to receive a section of said paper andis thereafter moved adjacent said exit opening to deliver said severedsection.

9. In a machine of the type described, a cas-

